[Air-L] Any Tourism Folks on Air-L?

Rosa María Merino rmerino at bnp.gob.pe
Fri Feb 13 12:51:48 PST 2009


Hello!
I think the virtual information helps us to give us an idea of a place,
but is very distinct smell, eat and live on site. The virtual landscape
conveys no magnetism or emotions. Rgds, Rosa María


> Hi Gordon:
>
> Have you considered museums like The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia,
> PA. USA which has an virtual and live presence and an edutainment
> presence when you visit the museum. The Texas Institute of Cultures is
> doing the same thing in San Antonio. Disney is doing it in Orlando, and
> the Hollywood studios are doing it Los Angeles. Three of the
> participants in my dissertation study had Disney connections even though
> they lived in different parts of the country and it was eye-opening to
> get the perspectives.
>
> Chris A. Heidelberg, III, Ph.D.
> Loyola MD Faculty
>
> Social Security Administration
> Producer/Director & Internet Development Specialist
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Titchener
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:45 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] Any Tourism Folks on Air-L?
>
> Hi, all.
>
> I'm a relative newcomer to AOIR and I've been impressed with the quality
> and quantity of information being shared here!  Many thanks to the
> generous community for all your efforts.
>
> I am particularly interested in tourism, critical discourse, online
> communities of consumption and the merging of virtual and tangible
> destinations, i.e. Ascher's hyperplaces with Eglash's (after Sabel and
> Piore) Flexible Economic Networks.
>
> I am not at all sure of the overlap between this list and other
> tourism/leisure/sociology/geographic lists such as Trinet (sounds like a
> good SNA project?) and would welcome an opportunity to collaborate with
> like-minded scholars.  My experience to date suggests much good work is
> being completed in the semiotic or critical analysis of tourism, and a
> large degree of investment in "hard" informatics to increase operational
> efficiency (groups such as IFITT), but not much at all happening in the
> nexus of these two areas.  I have been fortunate to work with colleagues
> at NZTRI on such projects as destination web-raising and community
> informatics, but am eager to know what else is happening out there?
>
> Thanks and best wishes,
>
> Gordon Titchener
> A. Professor in Tourism Management,
> Thompson Rivers University (on leave 2008-09)
> http://www.tru.ca/tourism/management/faculty/gtitchener.html
> Ph.D. Candidate, Auckland University of Technology http://www.nztri.org/
> Director, Dynamic Frontiers Project http://www.tourismresearch.com
>
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